FREDERICK COUNTY SCHOOL BD. v. HANNAH

Record No. 022984.

590 S.E.2d 567 (2004)

267 Va. 231

FREDERICK COUNTY SCHOOL BOARD v. John Harris HANNAH, Jr., etc., et al.

Supreme Court of Virginia.

January 16, 2004.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Patrick C. Asplin (Mark D. Obenshain; Keeler Obenshain, on brief), Charlottesville, for appellant.

Steven M. Frei, Vienna (Holly Parkhurst Essing; Hall, Sickels, Rostant, Frei & Kattenburg, on brief), for appellees.

Present: HASSELL, C.J., LACY, KEENAN, KINSER, LEMONS, and AGEE, JJ., and STEPHENSON, Senior Justice.


OPINION BY JUSTICE G. STEVEN AGEE.

I.

The dispositive issue in this appeal is whether the trial court erred in denying a school board's motion to reduce the plaintiffs' ad damnum clause to $50,000, the limit on liability the school board alleged was set by Code § 22.1-194. For the reasons that follow, we will affirm the judgment of the trial court.

II.

John Harris Hannah, Jr. ("Hannah"), a minor who sues by his mother and...

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